Jacob Bard-Rosenberg

I recorded a version of the guest lecture I gave to art students at Edinburgh last week. I hope you all enjoy it. Includes all sorts of fun stuff about rats, Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, arte povera, Otto Rene Castillo, and more! youtube.com/watch?v=i3mNus…

A lesson for students after marking: if you put something in quotation marks, it has to be something that somebody actually said. If you want to know what they said, then you should read their books. You cannot find out what they said by asking AI. You are a student. Read books.

Big news: 25 members of Academic Senate at University of Edinburgh have published a report describing how senior management have spent two years orchestrating a scheme to bypass academic oversight of departmental mergers and huge numbers of programme cuts. drive.google.com/file/d/17i0gh7…

Now we're supposed to be teaching 'employability' skills to our students. As if the political-economic crises of the country & the decades-long stagnation of productivity could be blamed on potential workers and not the crushing of the value of the wage by the forces of capital.

I dreamt I was a colony of hyraces.